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Please, please, PLEASE tell us you are not grouping Follett with Shakespeare, Milton and Chaucer (all of whom I love reading). Personally, my impression is that he's more on par with Dan Brown — with a less lively imagination.
He puts Brown to shame. Follett's nowhere close to S, C, and M in language; I was simply saying that I know a lot of people who don't like one or the other of those three. The accessibility of language is more important to people who are unfamiliar with them than to those of us who've read all the plays, all the sonnets, all the Tales, Paradise Lost and Regained, and respond to the fine sentiment, "They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait." And you don't need to shout at me, thought I probably deserve some condemnation for the comparisons. If the Bard doesn't move a person as he moves me, then how could be be surprised that Follett misses the mark with some of us!
And I've read four of Brown's books: Angels and Demons, A; The DaVinci Code, B; The Lost Symbol, B; Inferno, C.
Okay. I won't yell at you anymore :-) I've read two of Brown's, Da Vinci and Digital Fortress. That was enough. There are too many of Jack Cady's works to read for me to waste any more time on those, lol.
Tell me a little about Jack Cady, like time and place, etc.
The one I'm reading now, Rules of 48, is set just after WW2. The first story of his that I ever read was a novella, The Night We Buried Road Dog. It's set out in the northwest and is a good starting read, http://speculiction.blogspot.com/2014... although I'm already blown away by Rules and can hardly wait to dig into Inagehi.
One of the best WWII books I've read is Jackdaws, by Follett, about British women who spoke French and went into occupied France to fight against the Germans alongside the French Resistance. I'll look up Cady and Rules of 48. Thanks.
You're welcome. I'm usually not enthralled by a book in a WW1, WW2 or post-WW setting, but this one's got me, although it has nothing to do with the War itself, but a microcosm community of Louisville, KY afterward. The most impacted is Lester, a Black man, who has a different sense of self after being in combat in Europe.
From page one, I was captured! I love the historical value, the rich characters and their historical culture. I have read most of Follett's books, and have appreciated them all~
Follett is a brilliant writer! Most people I know who have read this novel have loved it. There are a select few who couldn't get through it. I also enjoyed the architectural building of the cathedrals, the colorful depictions of the paintings, and décor of the era. I also enjoyed World Without End, but not quite as much as Pillars of the Earth~ Follett certainly did his research on this one!
Great author, maximum writer! :)
...Follett, and his writings are 'all good things'!
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Please, please, PLEASE tell us you are not grouping Follett with Shakespeare, Milton and Chaucer (all of whom I love reading). Personally, my impression is that he's more on par with Dan Brown — with a less lively imagination.
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He puts Brown to shame. Follett's nowhere close to S, C, and M in language; I was simply saying that I know a lot of people who don't like one or the other of those three. The accessibility of language is more important to people who are unfamiliar with them than to those of us who've read all the plays, all the sonnets, all the Tales, Paradise Lost and Regained, and respond to the fine sentiment, "They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait." And you don't need to shout at me, thought I probably deserve some condemnation for the comparisons. If the Bard doesn't move a person as he moves me, then how could be be surprised that Follett misses the mark with some of us!
And I've read four of Brown's books: Angels and Demons, A; The DaVinci Code, B; The Lost Symbol, B; Inferno, C.
Okay. I won't yell at you anymore :-) I've read two of Brown's, Da Vinci and Digital Fortress. That was enough. There are too many of Jack Cady's works to read for me to waste any more time on those, lol.
Tell me a little about Jack Cady, like time and place, etc.
The one I'm reading now, Rules of 48, is set just after WW2. The first story of his that I ever read was a novella, The Night We Buried Road Dog. It's set out in the northwest and is a good starting read, http://speculiction.blogspot.com/2014... although I'm already blown away by Rules and can hardly wait to dig into Inagehi.
One of the best WWII books I've read is Jackdaws, by Follett, about British women who spoke French and went into occupied France to fight against the Germans alongside the French Resistance. I'll look up Cady and Rules of 48. Thanks.
You're welcome. I'm usually not enthralled by a book in a WW1, WW2 or post-WW setting, but this one's got me, although it has nothing to do with the War itself, but a microcosm community of Louisville, KY afterward. The most impacted is Lester, a Black man, who has a different sense of self after being in combat in Europe.
From page one, I was captured! I love the historical value, the rich characters and their historical culture. I have read most of Follett's books, and have appreciated them all~ Follett is a brilliant writer! Most people I know who have read this novel have loved it. There are a select few who couldn't get through it. I also enjoyed the architectural building of the cathedrals, the colorful depictions of the paintings, and décor of the era. I also enjoyed World Without End, but not quite as much as Pillars of the Earth~ Follett certainly did his research on this one!
Great author, maximum writer! :)
...Follett, and his writings are 'all good things'!
